Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-30

National Bank, of Cincinnati. The banks
officers are being arrested.
IN the case of Cora Lee, on trial at
Springfield, Mo, on the charge of being
implicated in the murder of Mrs. Sarah
Graham, about year ago, the jury failed
to agree.
The wheat harvest is in progress in
southern and central Illinois, and the
grain is generally in good condition, with
fair yield.
The benighted heather will not be
obliged TO "rage' forever. No less than
thilty-fve students of Cornell are said to
be willing 20 go out as foreign mission
aries this year.
MISS KEARNEY, of Terre Haute, Ind,
was shot at by a crank doctor on Satur
day, but the ball was turned aside by
steel In der corset. AS long as men con
tinue their target practice on women the
corset will continue to be a popular
article of feminine wearing apparel.
So MANY New York women want to ride
on the outside Of the Fifth avenue stages
on pleasant evenings, that it is impossi-
BILE TO accommodate them all. They have
probably been stimulated by Buffalo Ril's
stage coaching with royalty in London.
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fourteen months is said to have netted
her 100000, or about 81 200 for each
performance. AT that rate the eccentric
actress will soon be able to carry a whole
menagerie around with her, instead of
one little tiger,
SCHWARTZ and Watt, recently convicted
of numbering Nichols, the express mes
senger of the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacihc Railroad between Joliet aud Nor
ris, H., were lodged in the Joliet Peni-
Tertiary Thursday, TO serve out their life
sentence.
RAILROAD companies running through
any lOAkibiA VI tAAN othhN VI ANhN 4 yin ui'
given until May /, 1888, to get clear of
"the car stove" But they must go on or
before that tune Other states will fol
low suit and railroads would do well to
note the fact.
JuDaE WOODS, of the United States
court, at indianapolis, has ordered the
persons indicted for election frauds in
that city to appear and plead, and ia
miliar kind of pleasant music will soon
be heard issuing from the Hoosier cap
ital.
COsoAR WuDE's aesthetic tastes do not
appear to exert a great influence ON his
wife. At recent afternoon reception in
London she wore snuff brown ulster
wrap reaching from her neck to her heels,
black lace veil and black lace bonnet
that dcaed description.
A WAGER of 5000 to 500 was made in
New York Monday that gold would be
imported into the United States inside of
a month. The theory is, that since the
collapse of the wheat corner, our grain
will now begin going to Europe in large
quantities, thus setting a golden stream
in this direction.
In is said the Springfield, H., printing
combine" will institute a mandRmus suit
against the state auditor TO compel him
TO issue warrants for the amounts due
them work already done under their re-
Gently abrogated printing contract. 1t
is claimed the sum due them is about
$4,000,
WESTERN pork packers have not been
chilled to the marrow by the report that
company has been organized in New
York with a capacity for Strengthening
1000 hogs a day. That number of hogs
could be taken out of the Chicago pack
ing houses every day and not even be
missed.
The Michigan senate has passed the
liquor.tax bill with but one dissenting
vote-that of Mr.. Barringer. The tax is
now as follows On retailing spirituous
or malt liquors, $500; selling of still wine
or malt liquors, wholesale and RETAIL
$780, wholesaling of spirituous liquors.
$500 upon sale of spirituous liquors.
Wholesale and retail combinations, $500.
RuMoRs are current az Cincinnati that
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